Has Maynooth gone to sh*t?

Beau

Everyone just gets locked and stupid. Any other events are rarely attended. Its getting filthy. Vandalism is becoming more prevalent. I don't think its as friendly as it once was. The Library is always packed now! Brady's and Roost are always packed too, can't dance anywhere. ONeills is no LA. I'd love the Glenroyal to return. The reading room is stuffy and there's nowhere else to study. There are hardly any tutorials anymore. A lot of girls come in thin and healthy and get progressively bigger. Dunnes isn't 24 hours anymore. We don't make an effort with international students. The canteen and lack of a gym at the moment is a massive loss.

or is just me? I have been here for four years now.

token56

Have to agree, fourth year here too and something is missing, not sure what though.
The lack of canteen and gym is definitly taking effect and in my opinion all the new building going on is making the place look a bit more dreary especially in the winter.

Maggie.23

Beau wrote: »

A lot of girls come in thin and healthy and get progressively bigger.

Wow, impressive observation skills. Did you spend four years gazing at the girls? Anyhow, well done. We must be doing something wrong girls, because according to Beau our bodies should stay the same between the ages of 17 and 21! We're letting the college down! Ahem.

woodlands

is o neills still ****e

Beau

Yeh with the back of John Hume all dug up it just dosen't look pretty. As you say there is some spark missing this year.

I knew I'd get an angry girl with that comment! he he I'm sure there's lads out there too that have the beer bellies that I'm talking about. Just for me its just horrible and really unattractive to see a girl (because I'm a guy) lose her good looks from beer and pizza and I've seen a fair few people in Maynooth go down that road. I think thats fair enough.

LeixlipRed

I rememeber Maynooth 2002/2003ish. The roost was the place to be before they disco barred the **** out of it and every 50 cent loving twat that got the minimum required in the CAO started going there. When the SU was class craic. No longer so but Maynooth is still a special place

Rozabeez

I've never had to trekk through so much f*cking mud before in my life. Definitely not too happy with college this year, just seems dreary and depressing, but maybe it was the same last winter and I just don't remember?

The guy

It does seem pretty bad this year, maybe when spring comes around it will look better.

LeixlipRed

There's always mud in Maynooth. Spend more time on old campus. So much nicer over here

Ostrom

It is different this year....

Could by my cynical teaching head or the noisy shítheads nextdoor colouring my judgement, but something has changed since I started

lordgoat

I've prob been in May longer than most on here. Not in the college anymore but play soccer there and have lots of friends still in college. And this year is very odd. Even walking around the town it's changing, def less friendly and the canteen incident will have a huge negative impact over the net couple of months.

It's strange.

Acacia

The excessive mud is annoying me and the lack of canteen, but that's about it. People have always been getting locked here (it is college after all!). As for girls losing their looks, can't say I've noticed to honest. Were you watching the decline in looks of certain women or something? Most of the girls in Maynooth are noice (biased opinion as I'm a Maynooth girl, but anyhow! )

The reading room has always been packed, and the library is usually full too coming close to exams.

In short, I think Maynooth's great.

Though maybe I'm seeing everything through rose-tinted glasses cuz it's my last year! :pac:

Holsten

Overcrowding! And yes! The disco bar in the Roost sucks ass!

On Monday they had locked up all the pubs in the town at around 10/11... joke!

Michellenman

Holsten wrote: »

On Monday they had locked up all the pubs in the town at around 10/11... joke!

Yeah that was ridiculous. I left the SU at around 10pm to go to O'Neills (€3 drinks ftw) and the entrance doors were locked... Surely that's a fire hazard?!

whiteandlight

I'm sorry, but its christmas week, ie the week before the students go home. Most of them have deadlines just completed. Did you really think the town would be quiet?
This is my fifth year here and TBH I think it really depends on what you put into maynooth, what you get out of it. I've enjoyed every bit of those four previous years (even the weeks when I was the one with deadlines in xmas week)!

Beau

One more thing before I bring back some positivity to my posts, I do love Maynooth after all.

Having nobody to talk to in the careers office in my final year is a serious kick in the teeth! How long does it take to recruit someone.

Acacia

Beau wrote: »

Having nobody to talk to in the careers office in my final year is a serious kick in the teeth! How long does it take to recruit someone.

That I agree with. Pain in the arse, especially in final year. :mad:

r3nu4l

To be honest, the recruitment office was always piss-poor, not because of the staff per se but because the University always seemed to treat it as something they had to do rather than something they should enthusiastically foster. It was great for advice on interview techniques and CV preparation but as for helping you discover what to do with your degree...well it was never great.

I was in NUIM from 1992-2004 (Degree, PhD and post-doc), it was always muddy because of all the building work going on on-campus and the new estates springing up, as well as new Hotels like the Glenroyal. When I joined NUIM the SU was a pre-fab building, there was no Callan building, no Science building and no John Hume building. The gym and canteen were new as were the first apartments.

So over the years it was just a mudbath but I loved the place As has been said, you get from NUIM what you put into it. It's exam time over there (since NUIM went into semesterisation ) so of course the reading room and library are packed!

As for girls losing their great bods...well that happens to a lot of people who leave home for the first time and:
1) go mad
2) aren't used to having to cook for themselves cos Mammy isn't around.

They get lazy, grab a quick pizza before heading to the pub to booze and maybe have a burger and chips on the way home. That's standard for a lot of people, especially if they haven't joined a sports club. I knew a girl who lived on pot noodles and supermacs for the first four months of her time at NUIM. She bloated hugely then decided enough was enough, went tot he gym, ate properly and within months was back to her svelte self once again.

Haven't been back to NUIM for about a year now but last time I was there the place was looking great! New Lidl and Aldi, Manor Mills! I hear Tesco has changed too. Honestly, if you think NUIM is rubbish now, you'd have died had you been there 10-12 years ago

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pisslips

Not to worry I might try and make a comeback for next year.
I like the honesty of this thread.Also, I would say that after four years in the one small place one just naturally needs to braoden one's horizon's.

If I'm honest I hate the place, I just like some of the people left in it.Every time I walk through certain areas I start to feel a bit sick, I want to run away or collapse and give up or something.The little things that I didn't care about or could tolerate with the end in sight before, drive me crazy when I go back, i.e. the lay out of the paths and the way they erect wooden fences and plant trees to redirect the natural path.....I can't deal with the retardedness of it.
The administration, the bull****, the people who get completely confused when asked to do something slightly irregular.
The degree factory, the pointlessness of it all, the boredom, the same**** every day, the two hours of lectures a day.
THe only good thing about it for me actually was the drinking and a few rugby matches.
The way they boast about immunology and spatial stuff and other highly specialised sciences, that very little people do.
The way security watch you and ask you questions at night.
THe way the residence officers are always cynical and bitchy and view every student as some sort of child, even the ones older than them.
The pretention i've heard from absolute retards.
The overheard retardedness most of all, the sense that everyone is wasting their time, it just makes me want to get absolutely hammered.

God, if I go back I'll cry, or I,ll just have to treat it as a job or something.

I used to love Maynooth though, I think.

I'm so depressed right now.

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pisslips

I'm actually finished, thank god but i was thinking of going back for a post grad, don't know if I could take it though.
Maybe i'll could live with older working people, never hang around campus and become really boring or something.

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pisslips

Well yeah, in a perfect world but I was just particularly interested in a subject there. Maybe the year away will re invigorate me or something.
*prays*.

I would imagine that it would be more like a job than before so maybe that would feel different.

Crowdof1

4 years at maynooth was enough for me. The grey skies, the grey buildings, the greyish/brown mud. I've only been back a handful of times but it did seem awful bleak.

monty_python

for 3rd level students you guys cant spell for your life's

Beau wrote: »

A lot of girls come in thin and healthy and get progressively bigger..

DICKHEAD!!!!

banquo

I hate this place.

I'm not joking. I do music and the standard is a bunch of crap. I feel totally taken in by the prospectus.

In 3 years I have learned nothing. Not from not paying attention, I mean they're still telling us to "remember to include the *3rd* of the chord, that's very important..."

I shall never return. Even though I'll still be living in Maynooth I won't take the shortcut to town through the college.

A terrible place.

mp3guy

banquo wrote: »

I hate this place.

I'm not joking. I do music and the standard is a bunch of crap. I feel totally taken in by the prospectus.

In 3 years I have learned nothing. Not from not paying attention, I mean they're still telling us to "remember to include the *3rd* of the chord, that's very important..."

I shall never return. Even though I'll still be living in Maynooth I won't take the shortcut to town through the college.

A terrible place.

Sounds like you picked the wrong course.

I'm only in second year, but I like Maynooth as much as I did last year. Sure, the lack of the canteen is a bit of a downer, but there's nothing you can do about it. And I like the references to the Universities choice of weather conditions, who've thought they could control the weath- OH wait :rolleyes:

Beau

monty_python wrote: »

for 3rd level students you guys cant spell for your life's




DICKHEAD!!!!

And you've just come across a lot better!

Pisslips give us a hug and listen to donegalfella, I wouldn't dare come back to do a post grad in the college after spending four years already doing a degree. Why slog through another level of education anyway?

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Rozabeez

monty_python wrote: »

for 3rd level students you guys cant spell for your life's




DICKHEAD!!!!

I lol'd.